I bend, but I do not break.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.
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If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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In this world we must help one another.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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